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The Application Of Evolutionary Computation And Metaheuristics For Solving The Network Design Problems, Mehrdad Amirghasemi, Bo Du, Johan Barthelemy, Robert Ighodaro Ogie, Pascal Perez
The Application Of Evolutionary Computation And Metaheuristics For Solving The Network Design Problems, Mehrdad Amirghasemi, Bo Du, Johan Barthelemy, Robert Ighodaro Ogie, Pascal Perez
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
Network Design Problems (NDPs) can model many real-life problems in a wide range of domains from transportation, supply chain management and logistics, through to the design of telecommunication networks and airline routes. NDPs are generally tackled through employing sophisticated exact methods and (meta-)heuristics. Exact methods mainly include mixed integer programming, column generation, and branch and bound techniques. Metaheuristics, as the second strategy of solving NDPs, can comprise any construction methods, local searches (point-based), evolutionary (population-based) techniques as well as their hybrids. In this abstract, we discuss the challenges and potentials of designing an effective hybrid metaheuristic for solving NDPs by …
Solving Continuous Network Design Problem With Generalized Geometric Programming Approach, Bo Du, David Wang
Solving Continuous Network Design Problem With Generalized Geometric Programming Approach, Bo Du, David Wang
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
To satisfy growing travel demand and reduce traffic congestion, the continuous network design problem (CNDP) is often proposed to optimize road network performance by the expansion of road capacity. In the determination of the equilibrium travel flow pattern, equilibrium principles such as deterministic user equilibrium (DUE) and stochastic user equilibrium (SUE) may be applied to describe travelers' route choice behavior. Because of the different mathematical formulation structures for the CNDP with DUE and SUE principles, most of the existing solution algorithms have been developed to solve the CNDP for either DUE or SUE. In this study, a more general solution …
New Policies Create A New Politics: Issues Of Institutional Design In Climate Change Policy, Henry Ergas
New Policies Create A New Politics: Issues Of Institutional Design In Climate Change Policy, Henry Ergas
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
Institutional design focuses on the task of providing accountability and effective monitoring of decision-making by bodies vested with the coercive powers of the state in a context where information is inherently limited, costly to acquire and asymmetrically distributed. This paper focuses on issues of institutional design in the context of climate change policy. It examines proposals advanced in the June 2008 Draft and Final Reports of the Garnaut Climate Change Review (‘Garnaut Reports’), and in the Government’s July 2008 Green Paper and December 2008 White Paper on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (‘Green and White Papers’) with respect to how …
An Agent-Based Framework For Simulating Socio-Organisational Design Of Large Projects, Ricardo Peculis, Derek Rogers, Peter Campbell
An Agent-Based Framework For Simulating Socio-Organisational Design Of Large Projects, Ricardo Peculis, Derek Rogers, Peter Campbell
SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers
The success of large projects depends on how people associated in teams and organisations perform their tasks and cooperate to achieve a shared goal. Success depends on an effective socio-organisational design that defines organisational structures; human resources in the form of people's abilities, roles and responsibilities; and establishing processes and contracts that will drive measures of success. Predicting the behaviour of large projects is difficult and the performance of the socio-organisational design is likely to be validated only when it is put in to practice. Simulation offers a way to explore the likely behaviour of social systems without the drawback …